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Iphigenia61

Iphigenia

Daughters are an extreme blessing. I really feel pity and sorrow for a mother with only sons. We have four daughters and three sons. The old saying that "A son is a son until he takes wife. A Daughter is a Daughter ALL of her life." This is very...

4 comments    family daughters sons
My Cousin63

My Cousin

My Cousin. I was sent to Tuscaloosa, AL when I was 11 years old, 1951, to spend my summer with my mother's older sisters. Now both of these sisters were senior nurses at Bryce Hospital. Bryce Hospital was/is a mental hospital. To this day I do not...

1 comment    love world war ii homosexual
Workin’ On Mysteries Without Any Clues54

Workin’ On Mysteries Without Any Clues

Workin' Mysteries Without Any Clues The Mystery of Women On my voyage through this experience called life; I have pondered several things that I consider interesting to me. Key among these things, is the power...

6 comments    love relationships mystery
Message In A Bottle57

Message In A Bottle

I think that someone once said that "Our children are like messages in a bottle and that we toss them on the ocean of time and space." So here is my additional message To My Daughters and Grand Daughters: Be...

0 comments    family hope tradition
Adventures Abroad71

Adventures Abroad

Several years ago, around Christmas time 1971, I was sitting in the Grand Hotel in Hiroshima watching Japanese schools kids do callisthenics in the snow. My boss, in New Orleans, calls me and tells me to get...

5 comments    travel australia adventures
Veterans Day53

Veterans Day

It shows my granddaughter, Cera, her father, Mark, and me, the old fart, at a reception honoring veterans at her middle school in Louisiana;before Katrina. He's a vet of Desert Storm and I am vet of Vietnam....

0 comments    life war vet
What is a Curmudgeon?68

What is a Curmudgeon?

Previous email: "You know that I didn't get one response from my "Curmudgeon" email. I found that rather disappointing! I suppose that means that everyone thought I was serious and they must agree with you. I...

1 comment    life words reflections
Growing Old59

Growing Old

John Denver's song "Some days are diamonds, some days are stones" says it all. I think that the hardest thing about growing old is having to give up things that represent freedom for you. Babies expend a...

2 comments    aging elders growing old
Forget Not the Bride of thy Youth65

Forget Not the Bride of thy Youth

Forget not the bride of thy youth. I met my bride over sixty years ago, at a duck pond near a library on Gentilly Blvd; near the Fox Movie theater on Elysian Fields. Flaming red hair, sparkling green eyes, a...

5 comments    love beauty war
Why I am not Christian!67

Why I am not Christian!

Why I am not Christian! For my Mormon friends, I am a Lamanite; uncircumcised of heart. For everyone else, what that means is I carry a very hard hatred in my heart for ALL religions. When a person accepts...

6 comments    child abuse catholic church
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